Maggie 65 Report post Posted February 21, 2012 (edited) Am off tomorrow to a conference on new media and heritage interpretation. But I thought that a few of the geeks and historians who read this site might also be interested, and, as the conference has a hot new blog site with all talks on it and tweets and all I am posting the link. Last year we got to play with 3D scanners which was very exciting so expect there will be lots of interesting things this year. http://digitalpast2012.blogspot.com/ and now all the papers are available on this site; lots of nice pictures in powerpoints. Edited March 9, 2012 by Maggie Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maggie 65 Report post Posted February 22, 2012 Wow, first day of Digital Past very intensive and interesting. Does anyone know about editing and writing new articles for Wikipedia? Feel really small-town; so we have QR codes in Chirk Bank, you should see what Monmouth are doing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GLAM/MonmouthpediA Good idea ladies of Chirk Bank, print QR codes on the icing on top of fairy cakes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Community Online 65 Report post Posted February 23, 2012 Nice cakes! Don't forget Community Online has Twitter and Facebook too, Twitter http://www.twitter.com/community_tweet Facebook http://www.facebook.com/communityonline1 Also there should be a few Community Online mugs floating around the community, which I would have thought would last slightly longer than those cakes :D Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maggie 65 Report post Posted February 26, 2012 http://paper.li/Projectbook/heritage-sector# This is an interesting read, new version every day; today reports on 3D printer big enough to print out a house! Wow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leebarnfield 30 Report post Posted February 26, 2012 I am a bit of an RP geek, and its nothing new. I did a fair bit of research of the technology as part of a uni project at Loughbrough back in '98! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maggie 65 Report post Posted February 26, 2012 Do you still work with 3D scanners and printers? Can you use 3D scans to make rubber moulds and then go low tech and make plaster of paris models? Just think though, you could go to your nearest 3D printshop and order something over the internet, have it emailed back after paying with Paypal, then print out your set of cups and saucers or whatever. Digital Revolution...where will it all end? A question was asked at that conference...'Do you think the internet will be around in 20 years time? When everyone said yes, the response was 'well that's what they said about the steam engine'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leebarnfield 30 Report post Posted February 26, 2012 Don't do anything with 3D scanners printers much now, but I have seen it used to good effect. Patient with smashed left cheek bone, 3D scan of right bone, mirrored in CAD, 3D printed in wax, investment cast and inserted as replacement. No need to go to your local print shop.... if you don't have your own printer you just create any model you want in CAD, email to RP bureau and they create and mail your model in pretty much any material you want. The early stereoliithography machines were big money, talking 250K, but now you can buy relatively cheap desktop 3D printers Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
